On the Way Out: * Myron Olesnyckyj, general counsel of Monster Worldwide (parent of Monster.com), has been suspended “effectively immediately, pending the results of the ongoing review of the Company’s historical stock option grant practices.” Lateral Moves: * M&A lawyer John Graham, to Clifford Chance (NY), from King & Spalding (NY), where he was co-head […]
In yesterday’s Lawsuit of the Day post, we wondered where on earth Martha Louise Piggee, former part-time instructor of cosmetology at Carl Sandburg College, dug up the anti-gay comics she foisted on her gay students. One of you enlightened us: These are the cartoon “tracts” of Jack Chick. He has them all online, in case […]
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
A lot of our humor is kinda juvenile. So now we’ll throw some erudition into the mix. Recently we learned of this fun fact: A partner at a big New York law firm, a litigator, has the following quote from Ludwig Wittgenstein on his wall. “The world is all that is the case.” Those of […]
Tomorrow is the first day for clerkship interviews under the official Law Clerk Hiring Plan (which some judges follow, and some judges don’t). So it’s fitting and proper that our next interview anecdote relates to a clerkship interview with a federal judge: I clerked for a federal court of appeals judge. The judge’s chambers were […]
Yesterday we wondered aloud about how the wedding announcement of Chandra Collier and Juris Kupris made it into the New York Times (which is notoriously picky about which announcements it runs). This reader email expressed our sentiments exactly: Check out the Chandra Collier/Juris Kupris wedding announcement. It seems completely out of place. Neither family is […]
Usually we respond to reader comments — which we always welcome, whether good, bad, or indifferent — in the comments. But some comments merit fuller treatment, like this one: I still find it hard to fathom how gossip about these clerks adds to the public discourse. Given that the clerks are not going to be […]
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
Our series of interview anecdotes, which we kicked off yesterday, continues. And today’s tale illustrates that sometimes the rudeness comes not from the interview candidate, but from her hosts: As a law student applying for summer associate jobs, I had a post-interview lunch at [a large New York law firm] with a young male associate. […]
ATL extends its warmest congratulations to Alice S. Fisher, who was just confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division — one of the most important and high-ranking posts at the Department of Justice. The vote was 61-35, with 7 Democrats crossing the aisle to support her.* The Senate sure took […]
* The Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body for the federal judiciary (but not the SCOTUS), has announced measures to improve the judiciary’s self-policing and public accountability. They include required installation of “conflict checking” software — get with it, Your Honors, that’s long overdue — and enhanced disclosure concerning judicial junkets. [New […]
As we noted yesterday, federal judge Manuel Real (C.D. Cal.) is facing an impeachment inquiry (more details here). But when it comes to egregious judicial misconduct, state court judges win handily over their federal counterparts. Check out this AP report about a recent disciplinary hearing for a Florida state judge: A judge who admitted to […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
* We haven’t bothered to mix it up with our various critics, mostly out of sheer laziness. You don’t read us, we don’t read you; it’s a fair trade. But the description of the fracas in Blawg Review #75 makes launching a “blog war” sound kinda fun. [Concurring Opinions] * Now we know why bankers […]
After two consecutive weeks of relatively slim pickings, lawyer weddings in the New York Times came roaring back with a vengeance. Picking out just three to write about was quite a challenge. Near misses: Nina Fletcher and Christopher McIntyre; Jennifer Yen and J. Peyton Worley; and Abigail Greene and Jeff Goldman.* Here are the three […]
Via How Appealing, we learn of the Seventh Circuit’s opinion in Piggee v. Carl Sandburg College (pdf). The opinion, authored by liberal judicial hottie Diane P. Wood, begins as follows: In September 2002, Martha Louise Piggee, who was then a part-time instructor of cosmetology at Carl Sandburg College, gave a gay student two religious pamphlets […]
When the Supreme Court isn’t in session, many of the justices — such as Justice Scalia and Justice Kennedy — traipse off to Europe. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts, showing his diligence, sticks around town (at least more than his colleagues). He was recently spotted at work on a Sunday. When he does travel, […]
In a forthcoming interview in GQ, actor Alec Baldwin lashes out at his ex-wife, Kim Basinger. According to Page Six, “Baldwin claims she told such horrible lies about him that he wanted to die.” But Baldwin saves some of his harshest words for Basinger’s lawyers at the Beverly Hills firm of Hersh, Mannis & Bogen. […]